Born in 1956, Santu Mofokeng formed part of the Afrapix Collective that engaged in exposé
and documentary photography of anti-apartheid resistance and social conditions during
the 1980s in South Africa. However, Mofokeng ...

Worden, Nigel (Univ. of Cape Town)(Published by History Department, University of the Western Cape, 2009)

This article analyses two separate cases of public violence which took place in
Cape Town in the summer of 1772/3. At surface level they appear to be very different
in character. One was a scrap among low-ranking soldiers ...

Wotshela, Luvoyo (Univ. of Fort Hare)(Published by History Dept, University of the Western Cape, 2009)

Since its initiation, South Africaʼs post-apartheid land reform programme has
generated extensive analysis and critique that in turn has yielded a body of
scholarship. Discussion revolves around the official policy of ...

Sithole, Jabulani (Univ. of KwaZulu-Natal)(Published by History Dept, University of the Western Cape, 2009)

The key characteristic of the vast amount of literature on the South African workers
ʼ movement in the post-1973 period is the denial that the class and national
struggles were closely intertwined. This denial is underpinned ...

Nasson, Bill (Stellenbosch University)(Published by History Department, University of the Western Cape, 2009)

This article, an expanded version of a 2008 public lecture, explores the life and
times of Adolph Gysbert ʻSailorʼ Malan, a South African who rose to prominence
as a combatant in the 1940 Battle of Britain and who, after ...

Groenewald, Gerald (Univ. of Johannesburg)(Published by History Department, University of the Western Cape, 2009)

This article uses the career of Hendrik Oostwald Eksteen at the Cape between
1702 and 1741 to illustrate the mechanisms free burghers could use to create
wealth in an economically restrictive environment. By making use ...

Israel, Paolo(History Department, University of the Western Cape, 2009)

This article engages a historical reconstruction of the formation of Makonde
revolutionary singing in the process of the Mozambican liberation struggle. The
history of ʻUtopia liveʼ is here entrusted to wartime genres, ...

Malherbe, Vertrees C.(University of Cape Town)(Published by History Department, University of the Western Cape, 2010)

In the wake of the mineral revolution, and the Cape Colony’s attainment of
responsible government, Cape Town’s population doubled in the nineteenth century’s
latter years. Its largely British ruling class, seeing ...

Holdridge, Christopher (University of Cape Town)(Published by History Department, University of the Western Cape, 2010)

This article examines Sam Sly’s African Journal (1843–51), a literary and satirical
newspaper published by William Layton Sammons in Cape Town. It contends
that the newspaper utilised satire to forge British cultural ...

Irwin, Ryan M.(Published by History Department, University of the Western Cape, 2011)

This essay considers the relationship between the United Nations and the Third
World. Using the apartheid debate as a framing device, it explores Indian and
African nationalism in the mid-1940s and early 1960s. In focusing ...

Lee, Christopher J.(History Department, University of the Western Cape, 2011)

Introduction: This special issue of Kronos: Southern African Histories speaks to this imbalance,
contributing in small measure to a recent turn in Cold War studies that has
sought to incorporate regional perspectives ...

Field, Sean (University of Cape Town)(Published by University of the Western Cape, 2011)

Tracy Kidder and Jonny Steinberg have constructed evocative biographies of African refugees’ dislocation, journeys and struggles to settle in the USA. These books are reviewed through the lens of how South African readers ...

Williams, Christian A. (University of the Western Cape)(Published by History Department, University of the Western Cape, 2011)

From 1964, when it was first granted by the Tanzanian government to OAU recognized liberation movements, Kongwa camp has been a key site in southern Africa’s exile history. First SWAPO and FRELIMO, and later the ANC, MPLA ...

Saunders, Christopher (University of Cape Town)(Published by History Dept, University of the Western Cape, 2011)

That South Africa invaded Angola in 1975, in an abortive attempt to prevent a Marxist government coming to power there, and that the South African Defence Force then repeatedly attacked Angola from 1978, is relatively well ...

Brown, Ryan Lenora (University of the Witwatersrand)(Published by History Department, University of the Western Cape, 2011)

This article examines the life and work of South African journalist Nat Nakasa
(1937-1965), a writer for the popular news magazine Drum, the first black columnist for the Johannesburg newspaper the Rand Daily Mail, and ...

Scarnecchia, Timothy (Kent State University)(Published by University of the Western Cape, 2011)

This article examines the role of diplomatic relations during the first stages of the
1983 Gukurahundi in Zimbabwe. Based on a preliminary reading of South African
Department of Foreign Affairs files for 1983, the article ...

Ahlman, Jeffrey S. (Johns Hopkins University)(Published by History Department, University of the Western Cape, 2011)

This article interrogates the position of Accra as an ‘extra-metropolitan’ centre for
southern African anti-colonial nationalists and anti-apartheid activists during the
so-called ‘first wave’ of Africa’s decolonization. ...

Kok Nam began his photographic career at Studio Focus in Lourenço Marques in the 1950s, graduated to the newspaper Notícias and joined Tempo magazine in the early 1970s. Most recently he worked at the journal Savana as a ...